PERLU MENINGKATKAN JUMLAH PERSONIL TNI

PERLU MENINGKATKAN JUMLAH PERSONIL TNI 

Oleh  Drs.Simon Arnold Julian Jacob 

Indonesia terdiri atas 17.000 lebih pulau. Sedang Jumlah anggota TNI menurut data 

CIA tahun 2008, tersebut di atas sebanyak  438.410 prajurit, berarti setiap pulau,  rata-rata hanya sekitar 23 prajurit saja, adalah terlalu minim untuk ukuran satu negara kepulauan  terbesar didunia seperti Indonesia. Paling tidak jumlah TNI AD, TNI AL, TNI AU seharusnya minimal 2.000.000 prajurit.

Oleh karena itu perlu ditambah lagi jumlah TNI sekitar 1.561.590 anggota dalam waktu paling lama sampai tahun 2025 adalah wajar. Dengan tambahan anggota TNI 

sebanyak itu diharapkan  Indonesia lebih aman dari  pencurian ikan oleh nagara asing, maupun perlindungan terhadap setiap teritorial perairan Indonesia. Untuk hal ini Pimpinan TNI, maupun Pemerintah dan DPR RI perlu dibicarakan  jalan keluarnya atau solusinya.

Menurut data tahun 2009 jumlah Prajurit TNI secara keseluruhan 438.410 personil yang diperinci sbb :

1. Jumlah TNI AD   : 328.517 personil

2. Jumlah TNI AL   :   74.963  personil 

3. Jumlah TNI AU   :   34.930  personil

Total                        = 438.410 personil    

Sumber :  Google –Internet)

DIBAWAH INI DIKUTIP DATA JUMLAH Personil TNI BERSUMBER DARI CIA (US) SBB :

Data Military

Military branches:

1).Indonesian Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, TNI): Army (TNI-Angkatan Darat (TNI-AD)), Navy (TNI-Angkatan Laut (TNI-AL); includes marines, naval air arm), Air Force (TNI-Angkatan Udara (TNI-AU)), National Air Defense Command (Kommando Pertahanan Udara Nasional (Kohanudnas)) (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for selective compulsory and voluntary military service; 2-year conscript service obligation, with reserve obligation to age 45 (officers); Indonesian citizens only (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 63,800,825 

females age 16-49: 61,729,717 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 52,367,788 

females age 16-49: 52,129,123 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

males age 16-49: 2,181,303 

females age 16-49: 2,110,397 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures

3% (2005 est.)

(Sumber : CIA – Internet).

2). Indonesia's 300,000-member armed forces (TNI) include the Army (TNI-AD), Navy 

(TNI-AL, which includes marines), and Air Force (TNI-AU).^[50] The army has about 233,000 active-duty personnel. Defense spending in the national budget was 4% of GDP in 2006, and is controversially supplemented by revenue from military commercial interests and foundations.^[51] In the post-Suharto period since 1998, formal TNI representation in parliament has been removed; though curtailed; its political influence remains extensive.^[52] Separatist movements in the provinces of Aceh and Papua have led to armed conflict, and subsequent allegations of human rights abuses and brutality from all sides.^[53] Following a sporadic thirty year guerrilla war between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military, a ceasefire agreement was reached in 2005.^[54] In Papua, there has been a significant, albeit imperfect, implementation of regional autonomy laws, and a reported decline in the levels of violence and human rights abuses, since the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.^{[55]  (Sumber : Google –Internet)}

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